Myles Jack one of 42 on Lott IMPACT watch list

Posted by John Taylor on May 14, 2014, 9:19 PM EST

Yep, it’s that time of the year again.

Wednesday afternoon, the Pacific Club IMPACT Foundation became the first of a slew of awards to release a preseason watch list, with 42 players making up the initial group for the Lott IMPACT Trophy. There are 17 linebackers, eight defensive ends, seven safeties, five cornerbacks, three defensive tackles and two players listed as defensive backs for an award that’s given annually to the player who has the biggest IMPACT — Integrity, Maturity, Performance, Academics, Community and Tenacity – on their teams both on and off the field.

There are no finalists or semifinalists from last year’s award, won by UCLA’s Anthony Barr, on this season’s watch list as each has moved on to the NFL.

Of the six schools with two players on the initial watch list, four are from the Pac-12: Stanford (CB Wayne Lyons, S Jordan Richards), UCLA (LBs Myles Jack and Eric Kendricks), USC (LB Hayes Pullard, DT Leonard Williams) and Washington (DE Hau’oli Kikaha, DT Danny Shelton). The only other schools with more than one on the list were Duke (LBs Kelby Brown and David Helton) and Nebraska (S Corey Cooper, DE Randy Gregory).

Not so unexpectedly based on the above, the Pac-12 paced all conferences with 11 players listed, followed by the SEC (eight), the Big 12 and Big Ten (seven apiece), the ACC (six) and Mountain West (one). Independent programs (Army, Notre Dame) accounted for the remaining two.